"Sen. McCain and his operatives are gambling that they can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They'd rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up," Obama said at an event in Asheville, North Carolina.
"That's what you do when you're out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time," he said.
Obama also continued his heightened attack on McPain's health care plan, calling it "radical" and "out of line with our basic values," reiterating criticisms he made Saturday in Virginia.
Obama's health care plan includes the creation of a national health insurance program for individuals who do not have employer-provided health care and who do not qualify for other existing federal programs. His plan does not mandate individual coverage for all Americans, but requires coverage for all children.
Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan called Pale-lyn's comments over the weekend "offensive" and "not surprising" given the McPain campaign's statement that "they would be launching Swift boat-like attacks in hopes of deflecting attention from the nation's economic ills."
In a new ad that begins airing Monday, the Obama campaign calls the new McPain campaign attacks a "dishonest, dishonorable assault on Barack Obama".
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said she found Pale-lyn's attack on Obama "shocking."
"He's leading in the polls. He's leading in most of the battleground states. And this is going to be a month, I think, of character assassination. And so the repugican position is to try to assassinate Barack Obama's character and try to place him in a position where the trust that he has built dissipates, the credibility that he has dissipates," Feinstein said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
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Meanwhile, a spokesman for Joe Biden, Obama's running mate, said Sunday that the Delaware senator would be canceling campaign events Monday and Tuesday in the wake of his mother-in-law's death Sunday.
Bonny Jacobs, Jill Biden's mother, had been sick for a long time and was living in a hospice.
Wade announced Saturday that Sunday and Monday's events were canceled after doctors told the family to stay close by.
The death comes the same day Biden's son, Beau, deploys with his National Guard unit to a mobilization station in Texas before a tour in Iraq.
(Editor's Note: McPain campaign - that "deflecting attention from the nation's economic ills" thing ... t'aint working McGee)
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